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Program 1.2

Innovation for New Products and Processes

Description

Optimizing the use of Canada's natural resources and the processes by which they are developed would improve the productivity of the natural resource sectors and reduce Canada’s dependency on the sale of traditional natural resource products. The objective of this Program is twofold: to maximize productivity and to decrease Canada’s dependency on the sale of traditional products by encouraging natural resource sectors to adopt new technologies and processes to develop new products. This objective is achieved by conducting science, research, development, and demonstrations on new applications, technologies, processes, and products.

Non-Financial Performance Information

Expected Result

Performance Indicators

Targets

Natural resource sectors increase production of new products and processes

Number of new products and processes resulting from NRCan information

5 by March 31, 2014

Research and development (R&D) expenditures in natural resource sectors as defined by total intramural R&D expenditures in energy, mining and forest sectors

Favourable 10-year trend by March 31, 2014

Public and private sector organizations in the natural resource sectors have increased either cost-efficiency or productivity

Number of citations of either cost-efficiency or productivity gains in public or private sector organizations